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nd England for a triplicate guarantee of Cuba to Spain
the Ostend Manifesto
William Walker and the regeneration of Central America
Mr. Buchanan on Cuba
Democratic National resolve of 1860 respecting Cuba.
the foundations of our foreign policyn he immediately recommenced his operations, so that in June, 1860, he was again afloat, with an expedition bound to Central America.
He, this time, landed on the island of Ruatan,
June 25th. and finally at Truxillo,
June 27th. which he took terest, the people of the United States cannot but sympathize with the efforts which are being made by the people of Central America to regenerate
Alluding to Walker, then militant in Central America. that portion of the continent which covers thCentral America. that portion of the continent which covers the passage across the inter-oceanic isthmus.
5. Resolved, That the Democratic party will expect of the next Administration that every proper effort be made to insure our ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico, and to maintain permanent protection to the

istory of classic Greece, and especially that awful chapter upon the Peloponnesian war, appeals to us. The history of poor, dismembered Poland cries to us. The history of the Dutch Republic claims to be heard.
Modern Italy and the States of Central America are now, at this moment, crying to us to unite.
All history teaches us that United we stand, divided we fall.
All the Southern States would not be too many for our confederacy, whose flag would float, honored upon every sea, and under whossecret order, known as Knights of the Golden circle, or as Knights of the Columbian Star, succeeding that known, six or seven years earlier, as the Order of the Lone Star, having for its ostensible object the acquisition of Cuba, Mexico, and Central America, and the establishment of Slavery in the two latter, but really operating in the interest of Disunion, had spread its network of lodges, grips, passwords, and alluring mystery, all over the South, and had ramifications even in some of the ci

, first, a despotism, running riot, for a season, with unrestrained African Slavery, to share in time the fate of every tropical nation, whether depotism, monarchy, or republic.
That fate, induced by the indolence, luxury, and laxity of the privileged few over the oppressed, degraded, and enslaved many, is anarchy and destruction.
That fate is written in the history of all enslaved nations — its ancient, seared, and crumbling, but instructive, monuments are seen in Egypt, in Italy, in Central America, and in Mexico.
These are the evils — and they are not imaginary — that we desire to avort.
But, conscious of the feebleness of a single voice in such a tempest, there is little to expect but to abide its peltings.
The Republican party now represents one side of a controversy fraught with the safety and welfare of this Government and nation.
As an individual, we shall endeavor to do our duty; and, as we understand it, that duty does not consist in folded arms, or sealed ears, or c<

se and patriotic forbearance, I confess I greatly rely.
How a sane man could talk in this way, in full view of the Texas, Nebraska, and Kansas struggles of the last few years, and of the persistent efforts to acquire Cuba, and regenerate Central America in the interest of the Slave Power, is one of the problems reserved for solution in some future and higher existence.
To expose its inconsistency with notorious facts were a waste of time and effort; to lose temper over it were even a graveh shall not merely permit, but establish and guarantee, Slavery in all present and future territories of the Union south of 36° 30′. The direct incitement herein proffered, the strong temptation held out, to fillibustering raids upon Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Hayti, etc., could never be ignored.
The Slave Power would have claimed this as a vital element of the new compromise — that she had surrendered her just claim to all territory north of 36° 30′ for the conceded right to acquire and